According to Gazetta Italia, the Juventus coach is under contract until June with an automatic extension in the event of qualification for the Champions League, but at Continassa there is a desire to anticipate the timing for a new long-term agreement.
Guglielmo Buccheri:
Two months of Luciano Spalletti and something has moved: a lot to tell the truth. The starting point is known - self-esteem and results - the arrival point is a question mark that is worth, however, a good load of credibility built on team adrenaline and renewed ambitions. So what? The pact of eight months together could soon be superseded by an agreement or, rather, a project until June 2028: the first reflections on the subject have been opened, the wills between the parties converge. Juventus needs, never as in this phase of its history, a safe, experienced, authoritative and capable guide. The Tuscan coach entered the Juventus world with all of himself and understood that within this world every little detail is there to play for him, his reaffirmation and his professional rebirth after the opaque adventure in the Azzurri.
Juve-Spalletti harmony— Two months ago, the signing: in June the expiration of a contract between parties who bet on each other. The automatic renewal in the event of the end of the season with the pass for the next Champions League in your pocket is true and obvious, but not exhaustive: otherwise talking about planning would make no sense. So what? If the journey is not the destination but the journey, what the former coach is building is by no means trivial: the traps are around every corner, but Spalletti has shown that he knows how to defuse those, not a few, encountered so far. The empathy at Continassa is total and it is between the various components: in the Juventus headquarters the tasks are well defined but, at the same time, you play as a team even away from the pitch. The market is the most immediate proof of this: Spalletti knows the economic context in which he is called upon to move and moves accordingly. His personality and his past put him at the center of the scene and, on stage, the script, more or less emphatic, does not clash: maximum mutual respect and maximum understanding. Thus the conditions are being created for a new agreement to be rewritten before the aforementioned path comes to an end and, therefore, before the eight months at the basis of the marriage at the end of October.
Spalletti horizon— Juventus needs to broaden its time horizon, Spalletti to be able to design the squad of the immediate future so as not to have to resort to his "shoulders", brilliant, but sometimes forced. Two months ago the call and, in a few hours, the handshake: club and coach agreed on everything. In the coming weeks - at the end of the first phase of the Champions League - the new white smoke can take shape and substance: Spalletti's work is not going unnoticed even outside the Continassa; losing him, for Juventus, could have the sense of an own goal. Translated: the future is born now and not in May when the games will be done. Going beyond the eight months of the current agreement would also have a profound meaning for the locker room and, in particular, for those Yildiz-like profiles looking for confirmations and guarantees on a tomorrow as protagonists so as not to be tempted by the courtship of others. Spalletti 2028 is a hypothesis already on the table of CEO Damien Comolli: the coach from Certaldo is focused exclusively on what he has to do every day to improve individuals and the group, the club has no intention of taking the pressing mode, so the point of contact to prolong the marriage will be found as a logical consequence of a relationship of mutual esteem. Appointment soon, the road is marked.